Biosecurity Project January 30, 2006
I’m Michael Stebbins; my group focuses on biosecurity issues and national policy as it relates to health and biological sciences. These two areas have melded together in a number of…
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NNSA Nuclear Plan Shows More Weapons, Increasing Costs, Less Transparency
By Hans M. Kristensen The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) new Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (SSMP) doubles the number of new nuclear warhead programs compared with the previous plan from 2019. The plan shows nuclear weapons advocates taking full advantage of the Trump administration to boost nuclear weapon programs.…
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New NASIC Report Appears Watered Down And Out Of Date
The US Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) has published a new version of its widely referenced Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat report. The agency normally puts out an updated version of the report every four years. The previous version dates from 2017. The 2021 report (dated…
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Trump Jr: “Declassify Everything!!!”
On November 8 Donald J. Trump Jr., the President's oldest son, tweeted: "DECLASSIFY EVERYTHING!!!" adding "We can't let the bad actors get away with it." This was not an actual policy proposal and it was not seriously intended for classification officials or even for Trump's own father, who as President is…
Read moreArms Sales Monitoring Project January 30, 2006
My name is Matt Schroeder and I am the manager of the FAS’ Arms Sales Monitoring Project (ASMP). Since 1991, the ASMP has worked to increase transparency, accountability and restraint…
Read moreGovernment Secrecy January 30, 2006
Welcome to this latest FAS experiment in blogging. We hope it will provide you with some insight into our activities and offer us another channel for presenting our work and…
Read moreWelcome to the Federation of American Scientists’ Blog January 30, 2006
Welcome to the inauguration of the Federation of American Scientists’ Web Log on national security issues. We are very excited about this new blog. The Federation of American Scientists…
Read moreNSA Declassification Plan January 25, 2006
The National Security Agency has 46 million pages of historically valuable classified records more than 25 years old that are subject to automatic declassification by the end of December 2006,…
Read moreHandbook on Making Intelligence Accountable January 25, 2006
To promote intelligence accountability in new democracies and elsewhere, a new publication addresses the principles of intelligence oversight and presents draft legal provisions to govern intelligence. The document is being…
Read moreClassification Laws Apply to Everyone, Judge Says January 25, 2006
In a startling pronouncement that can only heighten tensions between the press and the government, a federal judge said last week that the laws governing classified information apply to anyone…
Read moreWhite House Rebuffed 2002 Effort to Relax FISA Standard January 25, 2006
The Bush Administration rejected a Congressional initiative in 2002 that would have lowered the legal threshold for conducting surveillance of non-US persons under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from “probable…
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